Knoll - Mercer coffee table Nero Marquina marble

Originally designed for Knoll in 1982, the Mercer table expresses the designer’s deep familiarity with stone and sculptural sensibility. Geometrically pure and formal in design, but emotionally expressive, the Mercer table shows a precise and weighted shape with exquisite balance and proportion. Reintroduced in 2018.

Lucia Mercer

After training in landscape architecture at Cornell University and a stint studying in the Soviet Union, Lucia Mercer returned to the U.S. in 1979 to begin an apprenticeship with the Cold Spring Granite Quarry in Ausable Forks, NY. There she developed an intimate understanding of the character and power of granite. The Lucia Mercer Collection, designed for Knoll in 1982, exhibited the designer’s deep familiarity with the material as well as her sculptural sensitivity. Geometrically pure and formal in design, yet emotionally expressive, the granite pieces exhibited a precise, thoughtfully considered form with exquisite balance and proportion.

Knoll

Knoll uses modern design to connect people to their work, to their lives, to their world. Since 1938, it has been internationally recognized for creating furniture for work and residential environments.

For more than 80 years Knoll has remained true to the Bauhaus design philosophy that modern furniture should complement the architectural space. At Knoll, modern design has been the guiding principle and this passion has been shared by customers and design professionals around the world. The founders, Hans and Florence Knoll, embraced the creative genius of the time.  Supported schools were Bauhaus School and Cranbrook Academy of Art to create new types of furniture and workplace environments.

Their approach, where craftsmanship joins technology through the use of design, sets the perspective and shapes the values that live today. 80 years of historical collaborations, with pioneering modernists and daring contemporary designers, define not only the past but the future through active, recent and future collaborations with Antenna Design, Don Chadwick, Formway Design, Jehs & Laub, Joseph D'Urso , David Adjaye and OMA.